Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751162AbVIVUmA (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751164AbVIVUmA (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:42:00 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53671 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751162AbVIVUl7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:41:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:41:55 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, "Mallick, Asit K" Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13 0/6] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} Message-ID: <20050922204155.GA5400@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Luck, Tony" , "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, "Mallick, Asit K" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 18 On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:37:46PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > >Conduct some maintenance of the swiotlb code: > > > > -- Move the code from arch/ia64/lib to lib > > I agree that this code needs to move up out of arch/ia64, it is messy > that x86_64 needs to reach over and grab this from arch/ia64. > > But is "lib" really the right place for it to move to? Perhaps > a more logical place might be "drivers/pci/swiotlb/" since this > code is tightly coupled to pci? It should just go away once the GFP_DMA32 code is merged. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/